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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha, 'the awakened one', was a wandering teacher in north-eastern India whose teaching became the foundation of Buddhism. His discourses were handed down orally by the monastic community and later written down, most fully in the Pali Canon.
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“Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful.”
Watch on YouTube: The School of Life: The Buddha ↗The School of Life introduces the Buddha“The noble truth of the origination of stress: the craving that makes for further becoming.”
“From lust comes grief, from lust comes fear; he who is free from lust knows neither grief nor fear.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 215, tr. F. Max Müller“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 1, tr. F. Max MüllerWatch on YouTube: Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work ↗Shawn Achor discusses how mindset shapes outcomes“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 224, tr. F. Max Müller“Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathagata — producing vision, producing knowledge — leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding.”
“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 5, tr. F. Max MüllerWatch on YouTube: Why I attend KKK rallies | Daryl Davis ↗Daryl Davis discusses this idea“Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 223, tr. F. Max Müller“He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 222, tr. F. Max Müller“The world does not know that we must all come to an end here;--but those who know it, their quarrels cease at once.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 6, tr. F. Max Müller“Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 133, tr. F. Max Müller“If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully;”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 157, tr. F. Max Müller“Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver one by one, little by little, and from time to time.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 239, tr. F. Max Müller“Respect, humility, contentment, gratitude, hearing the Dhamma on timely occasions: This is the highest protection.”
— The Buddha, Maha-mangala Sutta (Sn 2.4), tr. Thanissaro Bhikkhu“fools only do not praise liberality; a wise man rejoices in liberality,”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 177, tr. F. Max Müller“`All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 277, tr. F. Max MüllerWatch on YouTube: The School of Life: The Buddha ↗The School of Life introduces the Buddha“Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 50, tr. F. Max Müller“The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive;”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 252, tr. F. Max Müller“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 78, tr. F. Max Müller“Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.”
— The Buddha (Dhammapada), Dhammapada, verse 51, tr. F. Max Müller“Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings;”
— The Buddha, Karaniya Metta Sutta (Sn 1.8), tr. the Amaravati Sangha“Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy. He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 201, tr. F. Max Müller“All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 129, tr. F. Max Müller“He whose evil deeds are covered by good deeds, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds.”
— The Buddha, Dhammapada 173, tr. F. Max Müller